Select Charters and Other Illustrations of English Constitutional History from the Earliest Times to the Reign of Edward the FirstWilliam Stubbs Clarendon Press, 1870 - 531 pages |
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... power lies deep in the very nature of the people . It is not then the collection of a multitude of facts and views , but the piecing of the links of a perfect chain . And in this comparatively complete and intel- ligible connexion of ...
... power lies deep in the very nature of the people . It is not then the collection of a multitude of facts and views , but the piecing of the links of a perfect chain . And in this comparatively complete and intel- ligible connexion of ...
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... power of Rome and the necessities of conquest have , in the sixth century , in France and Spain , forced the process into a maturity which it has not reached in England or in un - Romanized Germany four centuries later . We must add to ...
... power of Rome and the necessities of conquest have , in the sixth century , in France and Spain , forced the process into a maturity which it has not reached in England or in un - Romanized Germany four centuries later . We must add to ...
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... power of the crown became greater and the number of jurisdictions multi- plied under the leaven of feudalism . The ... powers of legislation and taxation are never lost , nor does the king execute judgment without a court which is in ...
... power of the crown became greater and the number of jurisdictions multi- plied under the leaven of feudalism . The ... powers of legislation and taxation are never lost , nor does the king execute judgment without a court which is in ...
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... power is limited by a council of free advisers ; and he is bound by oaths to his people to govern well , to maintain religion , peace , and justice , they being bound in turn to him . by a general oath of fidelity . It would be rash to ...
... power is limited by a council of free advisers ; and he is bound by oaths to his people to govern well , to maintain religion , peace , and justice , they being bound in turn to him . by a general oath of fidelity . It would be rash to ...
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... powers of the lower tribunals . The number of royal vassals was thus greatly increased , and with them the power of royal and noble jurisdictions . Canute proceeded so far in the direction of imperial feudalism as to rearrange the ...
... powers of the lower tribunals . The number of royal vassals was thus greatly increased , and with them the power of royal and noble jurisdictions . Canute proceeded so far in the direction of imperial feudalism as to rearrange the ...
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Page 509 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal. 3. That the commission for erecting the late Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes, and all other commissions and courts of like nature, are illegal and pernicious.
Page 510 - I, AB, do swear, That, I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, that Princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 511 - ... and for default of such issue to the Princess Anne of Denmark and the heirs of her body and for default of such issue to the heirs of the body of the said Prince of Orange.
Page 507 - By issuing and causing to be executed a commission under the great seal for erecting a court called The Court of Commissioners for Ecclesiastical Causes; 4.
Page 508 - And several grants and promises made of fines and forfeitures, before any conviction or judgment against the persons upon whom the same were to be levied. All which are utterly and directly contrary to the known laws and statutes and freedom of this realm.
Page 511 - That all and every person and persons that is, are, or shall be reconciled to, or shall hold communion with, the See or Church of Home, or shall profess the Popish religion, or shall marry a Papist, shall be excluded, and be for ever incapable to inherit, possess, or enjoy the Crown and government of this realm...
Page 508 - Temporal, and diverse principal persons of the Commons) cause letters to be written to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, being Protestants, and other letters to the several counties, cities, universities, boroughs, and cinque ports, for the choosing of such persons to represent them, as were of right to be sent to Parliament, to meet and sit at Westminster...
Page 510 - ... and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this kingdom, and so shall be esteemed, allowed, adjudged, deemed, and taken to be ; and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly holden and observed, as they are expressed in the said declaration ; and all officers and ministers whatsoever shall serve their Majesties and their successors according to the same in all times to come.
Page 505 - Humbly show unto our Sovereign Lord the King, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons in Parliament assembled, that whereas it is declared and enacted by a statute made in the time of the reign of King Edward the First, commonly called Statutum de Tallagio non concedendo...